196 THE FIRST NIZAM of the properties of the citizens of Delhi. Nizamu'1-Mulk, rtimadu'd-Daulah and Sarbuland Khan were especially ap- pointed to supervise the collection of money. The city was divided into five divisions and lists of different quarters with names of their inhabitants and also the contribution to be levied from each were elaborately prepared and given to different Amirs. The collections were made in a most systematic and remorseless manner, and the people had to endure great persecution. Many committed suicide. Nizamu'1-Mulk and rtimadu'd-Daulah paid from their own chests the greater portion of the sum allotted to their quarters instead of trying to exact money from the people as other Amirs had done. The collections in their quarters were made in the most humane manner.1 After having collected his contribution Nadir made a treaty with the Mughal Emperor according to which the country west of the river Indus was ceded to him. He placed the crown on the head of Muhammad Shah with his own hands and decreed that henceforth the firmans should be issued in his name. His parting advice to Muhammad Shah was that the latter should be watchful of the Marathas and always act in accordance with the counsels of Nizamu3l-Mulk> who was a man of great worth.2 The Khutba was recited and coins struck in Nadir's name for two months in Delhi and in the provinces as a recognition of his suzerainty all over the Mughal Empire.3 The whole Mughal Empire was overawed by the sud- denness and extent of the overwhelming calamity; and the consternation of the capital, with its outcome of horrors, spread into the provinces. Raja Jai Singh had sent his family to Udaipur so that he might easily flee away in the event of Nadir's invasion of Rajputana. This is well shown by a letter of Dupleix, then governor of Ghandernagore, dated the 9th i Tazkira, op. cit., p. 91. a Tdnkh-i-Nddirshdhi. 3 The silver and gold coins were struck at Ahmedabad in the name of Nadir Shah, on which was inscribed the couplet: Hast Sultan bar Salatln-i-jehan, Shah-i-Shahan Nadir-i-Sahib qiran. (Nadir, the fortunate and invincible hero is the Sultan of Sultans and the King of Kings.) Mir'at-i-Afmedi, vol. II, p. 255.